When I am paying for an item purchased through paypal, it wants to use my paypal balance as a primary funding source even though I want to pay with a credit card for obvious reasons. Can I change this annoying fixation or am I relegated to keeping a ZERO balance in my Paypal account as the only recourse? If so, why won't Paypal let me leave my balance alone or manage it the way I want to? HELP!!!! ANYONE.
Send balance to email account not associated with any paypal account. Go Back and make credit card payment and then cancel email account payment made by balance that sent invite to join paypal.
I'm not sure I understand the logic of the solution. I simply want to be the one who decides what funds are used to pay for what items. I want control over any funds in my paypal account regardless of their original source. I certainly do not want to deposit any funds in my paypal account if I do not have this control and will immediately remove any funds that come into the account from whatever source. So, does anybody have a solution that does not involve using big sticks?
Your PayPal Account Balance must always be less than what you plan to purchase. PayPal will always look at your Account Balance first, you cannot change this behavior. If the Account Balance is less than the purchase price, PayPal will then go to your primary backup funding source.
Not so! I was prchasing an item worth over $50 and only had a balance of about $3. Paypal emptied the balance of my account and charged the rest to my credit card. I wanted the total amount charged to the credit card and my paypal account left alone. I certainly could not find a way to accomplish what seemed to me to be a simple feat. I wasn't trying to leap tall buldings in a single bound. Anyone, I still need HELP!
The only solution I got for this was just to remove my card from my account and then use paypal without logging in. It's frustrating but Paypal makes it so there isn't any other way.
